Uranium potential in Greenland. Reporting on the 8^th Greenland mineral resource assessment workshop, November 2016

In November 2016, a workshop on the ‘Assessment of the uranium potential in Greenland’ was arranged jointly by the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) and the Ministry of Mineral Resources (MMR), Government of Greenland with the purpose of: 1) pre-senting and discussing known uranium occurrences in Greenland and 2) estimating the prob-ability for the existence of undiscovered and hidden uranium deposits. The workshop was carried out in the framework of the Global Mineral Resource Assessment Project, and Green-landic – undiscovered - uranium resources were estimated down to a depth of one km. Three uranium deposit types were chosen for the assessment: intrusive, sandstone hosted and unconformity related. A total of thirty five permissive tracts were assessed. The main conclu-sion of the workshop was that intrusive and unconformity-related deposits have the highest probability of having formed uranium deposits in Greenland and that South Greenland hosts the best potential for hidden deposits.